Developing professional and accountable administrative systems in the newly emerged Balkan countries is not an easy mission. Like in other post-communist states, there is an urgent need to support weakened public institutions to break with former governance practices and resume their basic role...

For nearly 60 years, the EU member states have continued to deepen and enrich their cooperation. In the course of the European integration, they pledged to promote economic and social progress in developing an area of freedom, security and justice and to affirm the role of the European Union on...

This paper offers a social interpretation of the generational divide emerging from Spaniards' patterns of accessing music and their socioeconomic correlates. The three robust music consumer segments (inactive, buyer and downloader), determined with latent class models, suggest a digital...

La construction d'une Europe sociale est un thème récurrent dans l'histoire de l'Union souvent présentée comme trop libérale. En vertu du principe de subsidiarité les questions sociales relèvent pour l'éssentiel de la compétence de chaque État membre plutôt que de l'Union. Qu'il...

Much research has been devoted to the emergence and development of a European administrative space (EAS). This paper seeks to address the issue of whether this space limits the EU member and candidate states' sovereignty. Therefore, it is structured as follows: first, it will try to define the...

This text considers the challenges in front of Bulgarian public administration in the light of the expanding European administrative space. It makes an attempt at outlining the way for changing the pattern of Bulgaria's institutional environment and the necessity of significant change in the...

Thinking of the importance of local administration for each state within the framework of the European Union I find it of great interest to carefully analyse the reflection of the European principles for public administration, especially the ones regarding efficiency and effectiveness, in a...

EU expansion has mainly reduced the capacity of Balkan states of adjusting their administrative structures and models promoted by the EU standards. The discussions around this theme are founded on traditions, economic, social, cultural, administrative values of the states in the Balkans in...

In European modern societies, in the context of economic, social and political mutations imposed by globalization, organizations need to define new principles of good governance. Governments have assumed sole responsibility in improving the living conditions; enhance the transparency and...

The convergence of Romanian R&D and Innovation system within the European Research Area has been an important goal of policy measures taken within the last decade, aiming to increase its performance and catching up the more developed EU countries. The process of decision and policy design have...